I hasten to laugh at everything for fear of being obliged to weep.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.

Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise.

Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure.

To obtain a woman who loves you, you must treat her as if she didn't.

It is by no means necessary to understand things to speak confidently about them.

Honest men love women; those who deceive them adore them.

Can love and peace live in the same heart? Youth is unhappy because it is faced with this terrible choice; love without peace, or peace without love.

To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness.

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

And the drawing near of Death, which alike levels all, alike impresses all with a last revelation, which only an author from the dead could adequately tell.

I can describe, and I've always been able to describe, what Republicans stand for in eight words, and the eight words are lower taxes, less government, strong defense and family values.

The superior man is quiet and calm, waiting for the appointments of heaven, while the mean man walks in dangerous paths, looking for lucky occurrences.

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

I was obliged, at last, to come to the conclusion that the contemplation of nature alone is not sufficient to fill the human heart and mind.

I only know how to do me, so that's just what I'm going to do.

Expressing criticism of society is not being a grouch.

It's time to bring tough medicine to Washington. No longer will policy be set by K Street, it will be dictated by Main Street.

I'm a skydiver, I race motorcycles and I enjoy the thrill of life and for me in this walk of faith there really is no greater thrill than the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in your life.

People talk to me a lot about, "Why don't you ever rebel?" And I feel like I do rebel. To me, rebelling is - is that rush you get when you sing a song about someone and you know they're in the crowd.